[GRASS-user] CHELSA climate data set

[Helmut Kudrnovsky]

Hi Vero, 


Veronica Andreo wrote
> Hi Helmut,
> 
> I saw the announcement for this data set some time ago. I'm downloading
> now, just to give it a look. But, AFAIU, they are climatologies the same
> as
> worldclim. The remark is that they cover a more recent period than
> worldclim (1973-2013 compared to 1950-2000). But I know nothing about the
> quality of this data. Also worldclim developed a newer dataset that is
> still in beta (http://worldclim.org/version2)... Maybe worth comparison :)
> 
> In any case, if they are just climatologies (averages over the years), I
> do
> not see much that you could do with tgrass that you couldn't do with the
> other modules (and I'm fan of tgrass!). You could however obtain the
> bio-climatic variables yourself with Markus Metz's add-on r.bioclim (
> https://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/manuals/addons/r.bioclim.html) that works
> pretty nice.
> 
> Cheers,
> Vero
> 
> 
> 2016-09-05 20:34 GMT+02:00 Helmut Kudrnovsky <

> hellik@

> >:
> 
>> hi community,
>>
>> there is an interesting new climate data set called
>>
>> CHELSA – Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface
>> areas
>> [1]
>>
>> CHELSA is a high resolution (30 arc sec) climate data set for the earth
>> land
>> surface areas
>>
>> has anyone already tried to use it within GRASS and maybe with the
>> temporal
>> GRASS suite?
>>
>> [1] http://chelsa-climate.org/
>>
>>
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>> Helmut
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Thanks for the feedback. 

I've there is some raster extent issue with this data; already reported to
the data provider. 

I'll do some comparisons with the different data sets. 




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